Fact #159418
When:
Short story:
The Ramones play the second of two nights in London, England, UK, Europe, supported by The Boys.
Full article:
Matt Dangerfield (The Boys) : It was so hot, I thought there was dry ice on the stage when we played. You couldn’t see your feet, it was just steam from the audience, so it was incredibly hot which meant we had a few tuning problems. Guitars were going out of tune, but we got through it, it went really well and then The Ramones went on.
Then we had a call for help from The Ramones roadies because all the guitars were out of tune. They had these strobo tuners which were equally affected by the heat, so they’d gone through the usual routine where Johnny would change his guitar after the third number, so he’d then swap his guitar for a guitar that was totally out of tune, and while it took him a few bars to realise this, they’d meanwhile taken his other guitar and put that totally out of tune with this strobo tuner.
Nobody knew how to tune a guitar by ear, so we were roped in to help out. First they borrowed our guitars, and then we tuned their guitars in.
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Then we had a call for help from The Ramones roadies because all the guitars were out of tune. They had these strobo tuners which were equally affected by the heat, so they’d gone through the usual routine where Johnny would change his guitar after the third number, so he’d then swap his guitar for a guitar that was totally out of tune, and while it took him a few bars to realise this, they’d meanwhile taken his other guitar and put that totally out of tune with this strobo tuner.
Nobody knew how to tune a guitar by ear, so we were roped in to help out. First they borrowed our guitars, and then we tuned their guitars in.
(Source : not known)